, 1887-09-07
HE WILL BE HUNG.
After Nineteen Hours the Mccoy
Jury Returns a Verdict.
They Decide that the Texas Des-
perado Is Guilty as Charged.
Mccoy Maintains His Usual Uncon-
cerned Appearance.

Twelve law-abiding and conscientious
citizens of Laramie county have decided
that Dan Began, alias VIM. Mccoy,
Texas fugitive and Lusk murderer, must
die for the commission of a terrible and
unlawful crime.
This is right. Not a solitary individual
who knows anything at all about the case
but will say that justice has been done,
and the fair name of Wyoming territory
indicated. Two murderers have been
convicted in the past three months. 1t
can no longer be asserted, with even the
color of truth, that human life is not re-
garded as sacred and valuable in this Sec
ton of the United States as elsewhere.
The statutes of Wyoming provide that
men who are guilty of murder in the first
degree shall be hung, not acquitted or
imprisoned. The statutes are being en-
forced in a manner truly gratifying to the
people who had begun, at the termination
OF the Mcintosh trial, to firmly believe
that the conviction of a ''six-shooter''
fiend was well nigh impossible.
In the minds of ninety-nine one.
hundredths ofthe spectators in the Nc
Coy case, the prisoner was sentenced and
executed before the jury retired to con.
slider the evidence, arguments and Judge
charge.
The Jury consisted of John F. Bailey,
dairyman, foreman, G. w. Clark, grocer.
Saml. P. Brown, butcher, S. H. Becker,
painter, Louis Kirk, ~bookkeeper, D. w.
Gill, deputy territorial secretary, M. Con
nor, carpenter, Ohas. Cushlnberry, jan
itor, Jas. Ferris, capitalist, S. A. Bristol,
printer, VIM. Cole, machinist, A. Adam
sky, ieweler. 1t was a representative
body composed of honest, truthful and
reliable citizens.
DELIVERING THE VERDICT.
At 1910 o'clock a bailif informed
Judge Corn that the jury desired a hear
ing. They marched into the court room
with the tagging steps which have char
acterized their movements during the
past few days, but the majority of them
appeared to be pleased over some recent
occurrence, Have you arrived at a
verdict" inquired the judge after roll had
been called. I'VE have, your honor"
responded Foreman Bailey, who handed
the document which consigned the de-
fendaut to al untimely and dishonorable
grave to Clerk Murrin. The latter lost
no time in reading the communication,
which shorn of its legal formula, stated
that Dan Began, alias VIM. Mccoy, was
guilty of murder in the first degree.
M'CoY's ACTION.
The prisoner did not seem to fully com
prehend the seriousness Of the situation.
He still has friends, faithful and devoted
ones too, and will not cease to hope until
the executioner' moose is placed about his
worthless neck. Without provocation or
pity he ruthlessly murdered a man far
superior to himself in every way. He
has murdered two other men. Once he
escaped by flight Immediately after the
commission of his crime, and upon an
other occasion was rescued from custody
by lawless friends. In the light of past
events in the history of this Infamous
reptile n his previous good fortune in
escaping merited punishment, it is not
surprising that he should hear himself
practically condemned to death without a
change in his outward demeanor.
HOW THE JURY STOOD.
For nineteen hours ten of the twelve
MO-, tnNnI t0r H. r-wl,oN .--1
The remaining two insisted that a proper
construction of the law distinctly called
for a verdict of murder in the second de,
gree. At 1915 o'clock yesterday morn.
ing, when it appeared that there was
scarcely a possibility of reaching an agree.
ment, the unexpected occurred, and
twelve ballots reading guilty" we're de-
posted by the jurors. These twelve men
were loudly, Justly and unanimously
praised yesterday. They did what was
clearly their duty, and all are satisfied.
The Play To-Morrow Night.
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